[tex-live] Is pdftex developed in TeX Live?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Dec 17 00:23:13 CET 2013
On 2013-12-16 at 21:44:47 +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> Is the TeX Live repository the pdftex upstream?
>
> The actual upstream is at supelec
> (https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/pdftex), and has been for years
> now. But in practice it's fine to use the TL sources.
>
> As for help with your building the patched version, it's not
> exactly germane to tlbuild, since you are explicitly disabling TL
> stuff. So if no one answers there, you might try pdftex at tug.org,
> and if that fails too, ntg-pdftex at ntg.nl.
>
> As for actually getting the patches installed, Thanh would be the
> person to look at that. He is not on tlbuild but is on the others.
> I forwarded him the url, anyway.
I'm currently investigating how to create valid PDF/A-1b files with
LuaTeX. Since LuaTeX is based on pdfTeX, it inherited the linebreak
problems. I'm very interested that Taco gets involved too.
Regards,
Reinhard
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